"Emu" of IBM xiv--Information Store

IBM XIV, "EMU" in storage, subversion of tradition, redefining storage standards!

The emergence of "XIV grid storage" is another change in storage history!

It goes beyond the traditional storage to expand the technology development direction, in an innovative mode, created a parallel outward expansion of the new pattern and a very simplified management of the new model for the development of storage technology to set a new standard.

Its founder, Moshe Yanai, is one of the most outstanding contributors to the world's storage history. He has led three of important innovations, including the development of Symmetrix high-end storage. The introduction of XIV reflects his relentless pursuit of high performance, reliability, simplicity and low cost.

XIV, "EMU" of information storage

Data growth presents an alarming acceleration, and traditional storage has been overwhelmed in some ways:

Frequent peak performance bottlenecks, system hotspots, high energy consumption, slow failure recovery, rising total cost, management complexity ...

How can we stop tinkering and fundamentally solve these problems from a structural point of view?

IBM XIV Storage System-a new grid storage solution is in a timely way. As the core component of IBM's newest dynamic infrastructure, it brings a virtualized grid storage architecture, designed with a variety of standard Intel? /linux? components, which use Gigabit Ethernet to connect to this groundbreaking architecture with any point-to-point topology, provide outstanding performance, scalability, and reliability, fundamentally addressing the above issues, achieving 100% balanced performance, 100% high availability, and 100% linear scaling.

Its working principle is just like the advanced "EMU", the power engine not only is in the traction locomotive, also disperses installs in each compartment, and in any one locomotive power failure, does not affect the train high speed operation. IBM XIV Storage systems are disruptive to inject power into each storage unit! Massive storage and access capabilities for large-scale databases, data warehousing, mail, digital archiving, WEB2.0 applications, multimedia, HPC and other areas of customer needs to support host connectivity with a wide range of open UNIX system platforms.

Transformational definition-Storage dynamic responsiveness: Discard human intervention and close to 100% of automated management

Total virtualization based on grid is the unique design of XIV, which simplifies the management complexity of the mass storage environment greatly by the system self management structure. Physical drive locations and data placement are not visible to the user, allowing the system to automatically configure the user's volumes in the best way possible. A breakthrough in automated management that greatly improves business responsiveness,

Self-configuring: Hardware Installation hour level, volume definition minute level, snapshot use without any complex preparation.

Self-tuning: XIV's data virtualization capabilities Enable automatic "behind-the-scenes" data allocations within major hardware components at any time. This greatly reduces the management effort, and the system gets better self-tuning by changing capacity, configuration, or application behavior.

"0" management costs: a powerful intuitive graphical management environment that allows administrators to easily manage and monitor all systems without training. Virtualization architecture greatly simplifies management complexity, the system setup is simple to only two steps to complete: two parameters to complete the creation (name, size), the management cost is almost zero.

Innovative single-tiered enterprise storage architecture: XIV addresses all storage problems with a single tiered solution designed to reduce the complexity of tiered storage management and information lifecycle management.

Transformational definition-Storage performance: Discard system hotspots, 100% balanced high-performance performance

IBM XIV Grid storage delivers optimized, constant, and exceptional performance with a large scale parallel architecture, optimal use of all system components, including disks, CPUs, and switches, and unique caching algorithms.

Unlike traditional disks, XIV achieves a 100% balanced load with performance levels during failure:

100% Balanced Disk Utilization: each volume in the system is divided into several 1MB fine-grained strips, and is evenly distributed across all disks. This revolutionary approach ensures that all disk and data module load will eventually be 100% balanced to all components of the system, regardless of the access mode;

-During disk rebuild, performance remains excellent: The data protection mechanism for the XIV storage System is a unique, distributed data reconstruction mechanism, and when system changes (new hardware additions, old hardware removal, hardware failure), all disks participate in the redistribution of data and maintain performance levels.